App Review Tags : "voip"

Despite generally being a rather selfish, miserly race in most other areas of life, when it comes to the digital domain, we just can’t help sharing. But, limited to only sharing piecemeal when on the move, imagine a world where you could share all and sundry simultaneously. Now stop imagining and step in the Sidecar… read more

The Story Skype is the biggest VOIP (voice over internet) phone call company out there. The service routes hundreds of billions of minutes of free calls between Skype members each year – and also lets them makes calls to normal landlines or mobiles worldwide at prices from 1.6p a minute. This app promises to bring the magic of Skype onto smartphones, but does it deliver? The Experience Things certainly begin without too much fuss. You can sign in with an existing Skype or create a new account – which is free to do. If you’re starting from scratch, you can read more

The Story When Apple recently launched FaceTime free video calling for the iPhone, the world finally woke up to a feature that hundreds of mobile-phone handsets already have on them but virtually no one uses. Now Fring goes one better – by offering video calls over 3G as well as wi-fi. The Experience Once you have installed the app you will find that you can only actually make video calls to other Fringsters and if you are using a 3G connection, rock-solid reception is essential. Even over Wi-Fi, we had problems getting smooth footage, so forget about video-conferencing from a read more